Sculpture # 253

Driftwood, crocheted cotton, netting twine

Sculpture # 252

Recycled masher, duct tape over plastic mold, crocheted wool, cotton

Sculpture # 251

Net float, recycled styrofoam "noodle", hockey tape, crocheted cotton, ribbon

Sculpture 250

Wrapped twine over driftwood and crocheted twine, cotton

Sculpture # 249

Crocheted yarns, ribbon

Sculpture # 248

A Newfoundland "pot holder" is now at home in its new form. 

Crocheted netting twine, wool, cotton, batting

Sculpture # 247

Sometimes there is a shape that inspires a work. 

A broken coat hanger helped direct this one.

Wood, crocheted twine and wool, plastic rings

Sculpture # 246

Out of the bin of materials - cords and colours that say my turn . . . 

Sculpture # 245

A wearable piece . . a reclaimed glove.

It just makes your hand want to dance and play.

Sculpture # 244

A recycled belt was the start of this piece - the rest followed.

 Crocheted cotton, twine, caulking, belt

Sculpture # 243

Nuno felting experiment with crocheted wool and needle felted sections.

Sculpture # 242

crocheted plastic ribbon, wool, cotton, wood

The remnants from the basket of work in progress . .  time to replenish the materials bin.

Sculpture # 241

Wood, crocheted wool, cotton, lettraset

Once in awhile there seems to be a work that develops "a tale" along it's path to being formed. This work certainly is one of those . . 

Last evening while crocheting, the needle (below) split into two pieces. I have probably crocheted well over 100 of the works using this needle. It is rare that a metal needle breaks this way. 

I decided to take the work in progress with me to the studio today.

This morning while walking through Beacon Hill Park on my way into town. I decided to take a shortcut through the foot path in the park . . past a few trees and into the clearing up the hill, walking along at a steady pace when all of a sudden I am stopped short with a tension at my backpack and look behind me to see that the work had been unravelling for at least a quarter of a mile, somehow a branch had found its way into my backpack and caught one of the 3 ply of wools in the work and continued to unravel as I walked without me knowing or sensing anything until it ran to its end. I started back along the path  (rewinding the ball of wool) thinking it must be a few feet, . . then seeing the sun hit the line I could see it was all the way back to the very point I entered the park. I felt as if I was in some puzzling performance work. I couldn't help but laugh at the strangeness of the moment. I was determined that today would see the completion of this sculpture. 

The typographic component came about at the last moment as I was completing the edging. I decided to do some free form placement of the letters without any preconcieved notion to form words, interesting that when finished I handed it to a studio mate who immediately said that he could see the word "PUZZLING".

And so it goes . . . lets see what's in store for # 242

Sculpture # 240

#240 started with very long wool scarf, it was rolled tight and crocheted over top.

Sculpture # 239

Crocheted netting twine, cotton, recycled ornament

# 238

crocheted cotton, wool

# 238 in the series

# 237

Crocheted plastic ribbon and netting twine, plastic mesh

# 236

crocheted fabric and netting twine

Sculpture # 235

Felted wool and crocheted cotton

Sculpture # 234

# 234 

crocheted wools, cotton

Sculpture # 233

#233

In the collecting of materials fragments of other works wait their turn to find a new placement in the re-visioning of objects. 

This one has wood-putty-dipped crochet as the starting point. It evolved randomly from there. . .while on bus trips and ferry rides.

Sculpture # 232

#232 

Wood, crocheted plastic, wool, cotton

Sculpture # 231

a revisioning of the "dishcloth"

# 230

Paper, rubber, cotton, wood

# 229

Recycled kitchen implement, twines, wool, cotton

# 228

# 228

# 227

# 227

The series continues . . .  a gourd found in my bin of "sculpture materials" provides the base shape for this work.

#226

crochet over found object

# 225

# 225

Crochet with recycled wool scarf and ornament.

And the story continues . . .

These works . ."The cousins" . . come in to replace the works that have been sold since the start of the project.

Distort Sculpture # 222

The final in the series is now completed!

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Sculpture # 221

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Net float, crocheted wools, cotton

Distort Sculpture # 220

#220

Crocheting that uses a continuous adding (random) selection of the remnants of threads and wools from my supply bin.

Sculpture # 219

# 219

crocheted ribbon, wool over cardboard

Sculpture # 218

# 218

Another work that in generated from the saving of parts . . revisoning . . recycling . . perhaps to some degree hoarding of materials that have potential for further use. 

Plastic shoe rack fragment, shower hook, crocheted wools and plastic

Sculpture # 217

Driftwood, crocheted doily, wools, medium

# 217

Sculpture # 216

Crocheted wool, needle feting, interior form made by using expandable foam that expanded and extruded through the holes of the crochet.

Distort Sculpture # 215

Needle felted wool, crocheted rope

Distort Scupture # 214

# 214/222

Distort Sculpture 213

Crocheted tarred marlin, jute, cardboard cylinder

Distort Sculpture # 212

Recycled items; rubber ball, plastic napkin ring, crocheted netting twine

Distort Sculpture 211

Crocheted sculpture over armature dipped in waterputty

Sculpture # 210

210/222

Crocheted cotton and wool

Distort sculpture 209

209/222

Crocheted Jute over recycled spindle

Sculpture # 208

# 208/222

Distort Sculpture # 207

Vintage doilies, wood from an arm chair and crocheted cotton